[DAVID GAGNARD]

I agree with all on the potential problems with this stuff. My experience has been strictly with laquer thinner. For fourteen years in a body shop and four years using it in a dirt track car every Saturday nite for six months out of the year and about four or five tank fulls a year in my 65 Mustang.

With my Mustang and the dirt track car we never used more than about 10-15% thinner mixed with the gas. We are very careful with it to start with and with this small amount I think the dangers are quite lessened than using 100% thinner like you would in a body shop or other industrial uses.

In the dirt track car we run a fuel cell and change our foam out every three or four years regardless of what type of fuel we ran. We have had no problems with fuel lines-filters-or the carb what-so-ever running thinner in a 10-15 % mix with 92 octane pump gas. Again this is a low amount and running a higher percentage may or may not give you problems. The same goes for my Mustang.

Now, I will NOT run it in 95 Ford F-150 with EFI. I do not know if it will hurt it or not,but I'm not going to be the test mule on that one,it's just too expensive to find out. I do know most manufacteres DO NOT recommend the use of gasahal,so I would be afraid to use the thinner in any EFI vehicle.

Again, I agree tulene and laquer thinner are dangerous and can be dangerous,but mixed in these small quantities, I think they are realatively safe.

No, I am not a chemist (although I am good freinds with one at EXXON and my uncle is one),I do not play one on TV, nor have I ever slept at a Holiday Inn Express.......

Just my thoughts on this subject---let's be careful when playing with this stuff..

David